When you use the internet, your IP address is like a footprint left at the sites you visit, and it can be used to trace you back to your service provider or even your physical location.

While undercover on a Nazi forum, I convinced Ben Weerheym that I was a computer software coder who invented my own IP Blocker. Ben became very excited as I explained how the process works (it doesn’t, I can’t code at all and I doubt if it’s even possible to make one). He got so excited, in fact, that he fired off this email to the real me:

From : aussie Patriot
Sent : Monday, 7 February 2005 10:55:15 AM
To : yougotoofarmathew@hotmail.com
Subject : shut it Darp

I would watch my step darpy, there are alot more bigger and badder people out there and you are doing a good job of pissing them off.

I replied that someone serving a ten month suspended sentence for racially motivated attacks probably shouldn’t be threatening people over the internet as they could get in a lot of trouble. He replied:

From : aussie Patriot
Sent : Tuesday, 8 February 2005 9:55:53 AM
To : yougotoofarmathew@hotmail.com
Subject : oh, also

I use an IP blocker, I wrote the code myself, I work in IT as you will see from various news articles so you see, whatever you have is wrong (much like your rhetoric)

Thanks.

Ha ha ha! Not only did he claim credit for somebody’s work, he claimed credit for my work, and I know it doesn’t exist!

Ben’s a very gullible boy.